Photo via the New Republic It's a widely held notion that politicians have long been in the pocket of Big Oil. And there's good reason for that perception: oil companies' huge campaign donations, vast lobbying power, and close ties to politicians have ensured that their taxes remain low , that hidden subsidies are around to provide extra funding, and that they receive preferential treatment in US energy policy. But there could be a new, ... View original post here: The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
So there really isn't anything that deep to this image. It's just a (more or less) life-sized blue whale eye. And on the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society site you can educate yourself/be mesmerized/ waste some time for a while staring at it while the entire life-sized animal scrolls across your browser window. Believe me, it's way cooler than you might think:... Read more from the original source: Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
published February 18, 2011 and has No Comments
Making a "giant" green difference in your community? The Green Awards Program is giving away more than $100,000 and is searching for people like you! Have a green program that's creative and is impacting your community, but you could use more funding? Make a short video (less than one minute) and write 100 words about how your green ideas ...
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Students wear We Add Up action t-shirts. Photo: We Add Up We Add Up , a global campaign that uses organic cotton t-shirts with action messages to raise awareness on climate change, is launching a spring semester school contest, which will enlist the talent of students across the country to design their next t-shirt. The contest ends May 31, ...
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Photo by Steve Nagada via Flickr Creative Commons The International film competition by the 48 Hour Film Project is starting up again. The filmmakers have just 48 hours to write, shoot and edit a film project, and this year the theme is focused entirely on green. The grand prize is $5,000, so if you have a video camera, check ...
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Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons When TreeHugger compiled a short list of contenders for the title of "Person of the Year" in 2010, we knew it would be difficult to choose a single winner. Everyone on the shortlist, we agreed, deserved some recognition. In the end, however, it became clear that if a Person of the Year was going to ...
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Photo credit: whiteafrican / Creative Commons After we decided to select a TreeHugger Person of the Year , we also wanted to see which of the eco-heroes of 2010 our readers would pick from our short list ballot and after a week of voting the response was definitive: Nearly a quarter of all votes were for Ja... Read the ...
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Photo credit: Vassilis Online / Creative Commons This guest post was written by Smith Raynor, a teacher at Hunter Elementary School in Raleigh, North Carolina. Stay in line. Hands to yourself. No talking. Eyes on your own work. These are the messages that our children hear every day in every school in the country. Necessary messages, for sure...but hardly ...
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TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it "LifeEdited." The LifeEdited open challenge is live, and I gave it a shot to see how it worked. I designed a bed that runs up and down ...
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Waste Ventures is working to create a sustainable economy for trash collectors in India. The Beat Waste Startup Challenge , sponsored by the Adventure Ecology and Sculpt the Future... Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original post: The Beat Waste Startup Challenge Honors Innovative Small Businesses
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This innovative chair was last year's winner. Image courtesy of UncommonGoods "Where a new invention promises to be useful," Thomas Jefferson said, "it ought to be tried." To celebrate National Inventor's Month, UncommonGoods is offering an opportunity to put this idea to the test. YouGoods is an open design contest that calls on inventors and designers to submit their ...
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Image via Shicon . How do you interpret "Eco Fashion" style in your everyday life? Come up with the best graphic answer and you could win a piece of a €3,000-prize pot! Vogue and Fiat have launched a competition to design a bike helmet for the Fiat 500 folding bike, which fits in the truck of the 2-cylind... Read ...
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The office building, going for LEED Platinum, is built on top of a brick factory from another era. It rises to the challenge. Go here to read the rest: The Centre For Green Cities At Evergreen Brickworks Demonstrates How To ...
"The stakes are very high and scientists are not the best people to deal with the social, ethical or political issues that geoengineering raises." View original here: Geoengineering is a Technical Fix for a Political Problem
